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<span class="top">The Book of Lamentations</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<a href="B25C001.html">1</a>
<a href="B25C002.html">2</a>
<a href="B25C003.html"><font size=+2 color=red>3</font></a>
<a href="B25C004.html">4</a>
<a href="B25C005.html">5</a>
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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:</td>
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<td class="v">3:19</td>
<td>Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.</td>
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<td class="v">3:20</td>
<td>My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:21</td>
<td>This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.</td>
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<td class="v">3:22</td>
<td>It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.</td>
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<td class="v">3:23</td>
<td>They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.</td>
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<td class="v">3:24</td>
<td>The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:25</td>
<td>The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:26</td>
<td>It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">3:27</td>
<td>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.</td>
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<td class="v">3:28</td>
<td>He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:29</td>
<td>He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.</td>
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<td class="v">3:30</td>
<td>He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.</td>
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<td class="v">3:31</td>
<td>For the LORD will not cast off for ever:</td>
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<td class="v">3:32</td>
<td>But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.</td>
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<td class="v">3:33</td>
<td>For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.</td>
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<td class="v">3:34</td>
<td>To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,</td>
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<td class="v">3:35</td>
<td>To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,</td>
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<td class="v">3:36</td>
<td>To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.</td>
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<td class="v">3:37</td>
<td>Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?</td>
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<td class="v">3:38</td>
<td>Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?</td>
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<td class="v">3:39</td>
<td>Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?</td>
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<td class="v">3:40</td>
<td>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">3:41</td>
<td>Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.</td>
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<td class="v">3:42</td>
<td>We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.</td>
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<td class="v">3:43</td>
<td>Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.</td>
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<td class="v">3:44</td>
<td>Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.</td>
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<td class="v">3:45</td>
<td>Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.</td>
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<td class="v">3:46</td>
<td>All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.</td>
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<td class="v">3:47</td>
<td>Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.</td>
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<td class="v">3:48</td>
<td>Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.</td>
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<td class="v">3:49</td>
<td>Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,</td>
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<td class="v">3:50</td>
<td>Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.</td>
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<td class="v">3:51</td>
<td>Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.</td>
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<td class="v">3:52</td>
<td>Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.</td>
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<td class="v">3:53</td>
<td>They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:54</td>
<td>Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.</td>
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<td class="v">3:55</td>
<td>I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.</td>
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<td class="v">3:56</td>
<td>Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.</td>
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<td class="v">3:57</td>
<td>Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.</td>
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<td class="v">3:58</td>
<td>O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.</td>
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<td class="v">3:59</td>
<td>O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.</td>
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<td class="v">3:60</td>
<td>Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:61</td>
<td>Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;</td>
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<td class="v">3:62</td>
<td>The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.</td>
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<td class="v">3:63</td>
<td>Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.</td>
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<td class="v">3:64</td>
<td>Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.</td>
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<td class="v">3:65</td>
<td>Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.</td>
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<td class="v">3:66</td>
<td>Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.</td>
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